Mnemonics

[miasmum]

don't know any of them and struggling to name the planets in the right order

There you go see, mine is useful

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planents

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Pluto

[Kaz]

Oh I remember FACE as well, now you come to mention it Gal

[AliasAggers]

[My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planents

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Pluto

That's a good one.

[meriad]

Thanks Shell

OK everyone - what are all the others for... someone please enlighten me 'cause I have no clue!

[Gal]

Oh I remember FACE as well, now you come to mention it Gal

YVW!

[miasmum]

[My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planents

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Pluto

That's a good one.

It comes in handy for quizzes Aggers

[AliasAggers]

Perhaps I better explain this one...1) Pigs Have Big Heads Poor Brutes.

It relates to the calculations concerning sines, cosines and tangents in right angle triangles.

These are calculated thus...
The sine is Perpendicular over Hypotenuse (Pigs/Have)
The Cosine is Base over Hypotenuse (Big Heads), and
The Tangent is Perpendicular over Base (Poor Brutes)

[Weka]

I know the planets one as “my very energetic mother just swam up New Plymouth “

Now I guess it should be “my very energetic mother just swam up Ngunguru”